The Gentile Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Michael Weinreb writes for Rolling Stone about the white freshman basketball star:

Here are a couple of things I learned about Grayson Allen by perusing his bio on the Duke basketball website: He graduated cum laude (of course he did) from something called the Providence School, a place that defines itself on its own website as not just Christian, but “boldly Christian,” in case you enjoy your Bible study with a side of audaciousness.

I already dislike Grayson Allen (a bit player for the Blue Devils all season who put up 16 points last night), and as I write this, I’ve known who he is for about an hour. I already want to see him fail in some publicly humiliating fashion, merely because of the uniform he is wearing. He is every over-entitled, Izod-clad jerk I’ve ever come across in a bar, and I want him to spill his celebratory sparking cider.

There’s a certain type of Jew (such as Michael Weinreb) who just reflexively hates goyim but you’re not supposed to notice that.

Comments to Rolling Stone:

* When teams had been chosen, only one player remained. “You take him,” “no, you take him” they said of poor little Weinreb. Suddenly, that special little member of God’s chosen people felt overwhelmingly unchosen. They all pointed and laughed. They all looked like Haven Monahan, or was it Grayson Allen?

* Duke basketball… Duke lacrosse… UVA frats… Christian Laettner…

Media ashkenazis sure do love baselessly slandering white gentile college men. The vigor & gleefulness with which they do it, without any sense of objectivity… it seems to energize them.

* How come Rolling Stone is bullying a child at Duke?

How come Marxists hate children?

* Privileged white kids totally dominate college and pro basketball so Weinreb is justified in picking on Grayson Allen. Right?

* Does the Rolling Stones writing staff look like America? Or is it over-represented by mediocre Jewish writers who are there because of their privileged tribal connections instead of talent? Why doesn’t Weinreb do the right thing and resign his position in favor of a young under-represented Latino, Black, or Gentile writer who could then show what happens when writers with TALENT (as opposed to tribal connections) get to start cranking out stories.

* Weinreb comes across as a nasty, bigoted turd willing to write total BS about an 18 or 19 year old kid he’s never met.

Does Rolling Stone have editors or do its writers just post whatever they want?

* This seems like it was conveniently dusted off from the journalistic scrap heap that came in the wake of the Duke lacrosse fiasco. Apparently, Weinreb couldn’t submit a hit piece on the accused Duke players before the whole thing collapsed. Never waste a second chance, I guess. No matter how despicable.

* When there are reporters and journalists who are fired or reprimanded for attacks on other races, I would feel those actions should follow for the author of this filth. There is no substance found within this article, just one person’s rants. While I may not like Duke, there is no call for slandering any of its players, coaches or team. Hate should not be allowed to be written no matter who it is against. MichaeL WEINREB and Rolling Stones should be ashamed of themselves. There is no journalistic qualities to this trash.

* I’d rather take a shower at Penn State than read this Gentile-hating filth.

* Pure racist hate of gentile whites in article form. Wow, just wow. Even after the mega rape hoax fiasco.

* Oh look, it’s an effete Jew that hates gentiles. What a shock.

* And yet again another submission by a Rolling Stone “writer” who fails to do diligence, offers a drive by observation without any facts, and grasps at sensationalism to draw attention to one’s own pedantic writing style. Did you know Grayson comes from a blue collar family? Did you know that Grayson could have been admitted to Duke based solely on his academics and ACT scores? Did you know that his freshman coach told him “He didn’t have the talent or skill to play at Duke”? Oh, that’s right, this is Rolling Stone, why check facts.

* In 2015 can a writer for a major media organization really get away with so many blatant anti-Gentile slurs? Even after the racist slurs of Sabrina Rubin Erdely? This is astounding! Now sure maybe the author’s grandfather didn’t get into a country club but does a member of a hugely privileged and massively over-represented identity group really still get to sneer down at the little people like this? How about we get a person of color to replace his wealthy racist butt? Oh and why doesn’t Mr Weinreb let us know what kind of neighborhood he lives in? I’m betting it is 97% white.

* Do you not see how your article is just dripping with anti-gentile hatred. As a fellow member of the tribe, I’m telling you, you need to get over this for your own good. What kind of “privilege” does it take for a man to assume (correctly) that he can denigrate an entire demographic group based on his own cultural prejudice and not face any consequences.

* It’s a tribal thing. Weinred hates Grayson Allen for the same reason Sabrina Rubin Erdely hated those “overwhelmingly blond” fray boy rapists Tad, Biff and Haven. High-fivin’, having sex with cute coeds and feeding the resentments of a turd like Weinreb.

* This is revolting. You hate an upstanding 18 yr. old kid you have never met? Your magazine is a joke.

* Wow, just a day after Rollings Stone’s journalistic ethics and standards were laid bare, a new article ripping an 18 year old because his parents sent him to a religious based high school and seemingly because he’s white. Rolling Stone writers and editors swirl a little further down the toilet.

* Mediocrity always despises greatness, Weinreb. And Rolling Stone has proven with its University of Virginia fake rape story that it has not even reached the status of mediocrity. Grayson Allen, the last guy off the bench for Duke–and a relatively wispy, frail-looking athlete in comparison to the behemoths on the court, took the potentially dire circumstances into his own hands and prevailed with sheer will and determination. He sets the example for how the “little guy” can make a difference in the clutch. Yet the best you can do is deride him for attending a Christian school. Just another blatant example of the media’s hatred for anything associated with traditional America. Go join ISIS.

* I think it’s impossible to ignore the implicitly racialized nature of articles like this, even if the authors themselves are often white. There is something more satisfying about hating on the white players, it seems. Just as Laettner received all the hatred back in the day, now it’s being directed at Grayson. Never mind the fact that Duke’s team is now 80% black–let’s push the narrative of entitled white man.

Clearly RS is looking to push this narrative over and over again–that the world is being screwed by entitled, rich, snotty white guys. It’s getting boring, and in some cases blatantly untrue, like their UVA fiasco in which NOBODY was even fired.

* You and your associates at the Stone are practitioners of anything but journalism; way past what is called yellow journalism. You do not at all know Grayson Allen nor the environment in which he grew and developed into a fine young man. He was at star at the Providence School, about which you know nothing. He excelled academically and athletically in a Christian environment which focusses on character and leadership development. I watched him play there. His coach, Jim Martin is as fine a coach as anyone could hope for in high school athletics. My daughter will graduate from Providence on May 16. She too is a star – academically(President Nat’l Honor Society, athletically (a star swimmer, 5x state finalist), musically (piano) and spiritually (about which you no nothing). She will attend Florida this fall and major in Journalism. I will point to Rolling Stone as an example of where not to work and your writings as what not to become. You and RS are a scab on the industry and the profession.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Grayson Allen is privileged and over-entitled, writes a guy named Michael Weinreb, who’s writing for a magazine owned by a guy named Jann Wenner.

We all know how privileged and powerful those Christians can be. Why just look at how the tiny Christian minority living outside of Arkansas and Indiana only just recently steamrolled the millions of atheists in those states to pass religious freedom laws, while poor oppressed locals like Marc Benioff had to just bend over and take it.

At some point it grows wearisome hearing the guy in the castle on the hill bitching about how poor and oppressed he is.

* Sounds like somebody’s grumpy about not getting into a country club.

* About Michael Weinreb: “I’ve read most of Philip Roth’s oeuvre. I once took a class in which we read nothing but Roth novels. I will admit, I am not an unbiased observer when it comes to Roth, and how much of that has to do with the fact that I am also a cranky Jewish male…”

LINK: “Michael Weinreb is a graduate of Penn State and the Boston University creative writing program. He has worked as a sports and features reporter at the Dallas Morning News, the Los Angeles Times, the Akro (Ohio) Beacon Journal and Newsday, and has been cited in the Best American Sports Writing anthology. His short fiction has been published in Nerve and other literary journals and he is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Short Story Fellowship. He lives in New York City.”

* As a sometimes-subscriber to Rolling Stone, this one really troubles me. He as much as declares ‘As a Jew, I hate Christians and Christianity in all its forms.’

I was surprised the other day by an episode of ‘Big Bang Theory’ where Howard mentions casually that Jews aren’t supposed to wear crosses, which somehow had never sunk in before, and when I looked into it it was explained that for Jews the cross is up there with the swastika as a ‘symbol of antisemitism’.

I’ve never cared for the imagery of the crucifix, nor believed in the resurrection, but I do think we need to outgrow our ‘Old Testament’ bomb-Iran style foreign policy, so I’m tempted to make common cause with Grayson-Allen types, against the increasingly ‘audacious’ Old Testament Jews. I’d like some term with ‘Christian’ in it that just implies the mature/genteel/gentlemanly/gentile side of the New Testament, not the rabid sociopathic stuff (inherited I imagine from Orthodox Judaism).

How many people understand that Israel is only 2% Christian? That Jews there aren’t allowed to marry Christians?

How do I register my objections to this?

* Whenever any piece of writing is exceptionally, startlingly vile and hateful towards traditional white society, I look at the author’s name.

It. Never. Fails.

WEINREB

* Some kid wants to play basketball and a creep crawls out from underneath a dung pile to attack him for no reason at all. He’s done nothing wrong, yet this slimeball hates him just for existing. What a hater.

* Weinreb sounds a lot like Mark Rudd, who also copped to visceral anti-gentilism as his personal motivator.

The 60s were a great time for Jewish radicals and black panthers. You could guilt-trip and nail more white girls than you could shake a stick at.

* If someone wrote these words about anyone other than a white guy it would be considered extreme heresy and would undoubtedly be career-destroying. That Michael Weinreb is able to write this with apparent impunity and that a magazine that suffered a recent humiliation for its shoddy journalism would publish this is quite astounding.

* I congratulate Michael Weinreb for openly admitting he dislikes someone based on their religion and ancestry. (Well, also I suppose for quietly working hard and excelling at something.)

The unconscious mindset behind the Megaphone: people are judged by the color of their skin in spite of the content of their character.

* watched the “hate Christian Laettner” documentary the other day. All of the journalists who hated him were Askenazi Jews.

The only other person who really said much was Jalen Rose, who previously said that he didn’t hate Laettner and the person he hated on Duke was Grant Hill.

Is Christian Laettner hate as simple to explain as “Jewish sportswriters don’t like Polish basketball player (and his Polish coach)?”. Is Duke hate in general (outside of rivalries) this easy to explain?

So I look at the ethnicity of the writer of this article, the guy motivated to hate an end of bench freshman based on how he looks. Guess what?

* Weinreb admits that he knows almost nothing about Grayson Allen except that he is a Christian who plays basketball for Duke, and yet he says that he dislikes him and wants him to fail.

It’s clear who the real bigoted haters are. Weinreb openly admits to being one, but will in fact receive kudos from his peers for his writing.

* I find offensive that Whinereb is anti-gentile.

He is a gentiliphobe.

Did I mention the micro-aggressions inherent in his hate speech?

My civil rights were violated.

Perhaps his Manischewitz was made from sour grapes.

All better now.

* “He remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony, during which, he says, five men took turns dribbling, rebounding, and scoring, while several more – bench players and key reserves – gave instruction and encouragement. He remembers how the spectators swigged beers, and how they called each other nicknames like Deebo and Big J. He remembers the men’s heft and their sour reek of gatorade mixed with the pungency of sweat. Most of all, Michael Weinreb remembers the pain and the pounding that went on and on.

“As the last man headed for the basket, Weinreb was startled to recognize him: He attended a Christian high school in Florida. He looked like he was going to cry or puke as he told the crowd he couldn’t get his shot up. “P***y!” the other men jeered. “What, Wisconsin’s too good for you?” Then they egged him on: “Don’t you want to be a Blue Devil?” “We all had to do it, so you do, too.” Someone handed him a basketball. Weinreb stared at the young man, silently begging him not to go through with it. And as he shoved the ball into the basket, Weinreb fell into a stupor, mentally untethering from the brutal tableau, his mind leaving behind his doughy body under assault on the floor.”

* Jews have a partly homoerotic, partly primatological infatuation with negro athletes. Watching them outperform whites satisfies resentment and supremacy urges, because they view whites as competition.

* First of all, Grayson Allen is the “blackest” player on this year’s Duke team insofar as style of play is concerned. He has the highest vertical jump on a team that has 3 “one and done” players who are almost certain to all go in the first round of the upcoming NBA draft. The likely #1 pick, Jahlil Okafor, described him as the most athletic guy on the Duke team. He won several important dunk contests that featured top HS prospects.

Here is a video compilation of his playing style:

Dunks over no fewer than four 6’8 dudes at 16 years old:

Point is, the dude is the complete antithesis of the slow, vertically challenged “high motor” stereotype of white basketball players that is itself closer to being a blood-libel than to objective reality.

Anyway, a few days or a week after our debate here at Isteve over whether it is its “whiteness” that Duke bball is hated for, Grantland ran a big feature story on why this year’s Dukies are different and should be loved. I’m going to save you all from having to read that fetishistic drivel, but suffice it to say it consisted of cringe-worthy, slavish nut-licking of Duke’s “explosive” black starters punctuated by no fewer than 3 youtube videos of said black studs doing “explosive,” never before seen things like dunking basketballs or blocking shots.
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The article doesn’t mention the words “black” or “white,” so ostensibly, there is plausible deniability. Maybe they just really like explosive players. Yeah right, but whatever. Point is, the sports media conversation had shifted, and not only at Grantland. This year’s team is not your “typical” Duke team. How is it not typical? Well, uh, hmm, they’re just more dynamic, more fun to watch! That’s it!

I watched the national championship game. Ironically enough, most of the athletic plays, like a flying dunk off a miss and a couple driving put backs, came from the white players on the Wisconsin side. From the Duke side, the only explosive plays came from Grayson Allen on drives to the basket and tough layups in traffic. Whenever Allen was on the court, he was attacking the basket a la Westbrook. In the limited minutes he played during the semifinal game against Michigan, his signature moment was a vicious dunk off of his own missed shot.

The point is, the guy had limited TV exposure but in the minutes he was in the spotlight for the national audience, he was the most emphatically “explosive” player on the Duke team. As the first part of my post showed, he has always been known as an athletic player throughout his career, so his outburst during the final 4 was not an anomaly. This was no Brian “White Mamba” Scalabrini using a perfect planetary alignment to go against all recorded history and go in for a dunk that amounts to an exception that proves the rule.

Funnily enough, before the confetti had even been swept off the court, the sports media (including of course Grantland) was abuzz about how we have finally found our new “Duke villain” in Grayson Allen. Huh? What makes him a villain? We were just told to love Duke, so the fact he’s a Duke player is by itself obviously not the reason. We were told to love Duke because of how explosive Duke plays, and this kid was by far the most explosive Duke player whenever he was on the court, so boring, unathletic play can’t be the reason.

So are white players hated because of their race? I think this answers the question. Allen is extremely athletically gifted, plays “black,” was given very limited minutes despite being a top 25 national recruit but when presented with a chance due to the starters’ foul trouble came in clutch and single-handedly pulled his team back from the brink on the biggest stage. But he’s white, so he should be hated. The only good thing to be said about this whole sad state of affairs is that the kid is getting laid and playing ball and not in some foreign shithole “fighting for America.”

* Pure, seething hatred of white Christian gentile America on full display. This article is so obviously animated by ethnic resentment I wonder how it could have gotten published – oh wait a minute, the owner of the magazine is the author’s co-ethnic, so I guess I don’t have to wonder anymore.

* Now, now, don’t pick on poor Michael. In 20 years when he’s lower T he’ll finally be able to openly profess his love for beautiful black bodies (Donald Sterling), and maybe even make a full transition (Buzz Bissinger).

* Gee, imagine if he picked out another familiar type and let rip:

Here are a couple of things I learned about DaQuante Ellison of by perusing his bio and rap sheet: He graduated from an inner city hellhole without having learned to read past the third grade level, write in cursive or perform basic math. The school is Bloods territory and fashions itself an “academy”, in case you like your savage chaos with an academic gloss.

DaQuante is just a freshman and still only a father of three, but I imagine this won’t be the last time he offends that shrinking base of decent folk still capable of moral discernment, because with a name and a biography like DaQuante Ellison’s, how can he be anything but the latest in a long line of one-and-done players who appear to have been genetically engineered to pillage and procreate as much as possible before lapsing into an early, child-like senescence in middle age, as likely as not in prison, should he survive?

He is every arrogant, pants-sagging jerk whose ever shaken down a spindly weakling like me, and I want him to spill his celebratory cognac, but I’m so terrified of him I’m going to go find a white preppie upon whom I will unload all this pent-up, impotent rage.

* What is wrong with these Rolling Stone people? Did they nurse on malice as infants?

Grayson Allen looks like a nice kid — even a little self-effacing.

I’m really amazed how people could foster such hatred for people who never did anything to deserve it, and who would probably be pleasant and respectful even to Rolling Stone types.

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A Lecture On The Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says: “Having spent a lot of time around Gedolei Yisrael (great rabbis), the more intelligence you have, the more critical you are. You have to learn a lot of mussar to remove that negative outlook to be able to give everyone credit and to be encouraging and to be positive.”

“Being half a hasid is like being half pregnant. Either you’re a hasid of the rebbe or not. A leader can ask anything of someone who’s devoted.”

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New York Post: Mila Kunis snaps at reporter: I don’t identify with Ukraine

Report:

A topic that really set the “Black Swan” actress off was Ukraine, the country she was born in and lived in until she was 7.
“I’ve talked about me moving to America in a hundred interviews,” she told Whitty. “It’s the most mundane subject possible, it’s like everyone’s immigrant story. It was much harder for my 13-year-old brother, it was much harder for my parents.”
Things only got worse when the reporter tried to get her thoughts on the embattled country.
“I know what your next question is so let’s just skip it,” she said later. “You’re going to ask me what I think about what’s going on now in Ukraine. Just because I lived there until I was 7 doesn’t mean I identify with Ukraine.”

Most Jews I know from Eastern Europe (except for Russian Jews), don’t identify with their home countries. Jews and goyim in Eastern Europe have had centuries of mutual loathing. Until recently, I thought this was because the goyim in Eastern Europe were particularly horrible people. Now, after reading Esau’s Tears, I’m learning to see both sides in this dispute.

From the Daily Mail:

Mila Kunis has been targeted in an anti-Semitic rant.
A slur was reportedly made against the 29-year-old actress – who has been dating Two And A Half Men star Ashton Kutcher for nine months – by a politician in her native Ukraine.
According to gossip website TMZ.com, Jewish organisations around the globe are furious that Igor Miroshnichenko said the Ted star was not a true Ukrainian and called her a ‘zhydovka.’
The statement translates as ‘dirty Jewess’ and is reportedly a derogatory word against Jewish people that was used during the Holocaust, TMZ said.
Protests have broken out in recent days after the Ukrainian Justice Ministry ruled that using the term to describe a Jewish person was legal, turning back a petition demanding that the offensive word be banned from the public sphere.
Mila has yet to respond to the politician’s remarks.
The successful actress opened up about her early childhood growing up in the Ukraine earlier this year.
She said: ‘My whole family was in the Holocaust. My grandparents passed and not many survived.
‘After the Holocaust, in Russia you were not allowed to be religious. So my parents raised me to know I was Jewish.
‘You know who you are inside. When I was in school you would still see anti-Semitic signs.
‘One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade. She came home one day crying. Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika.
‘This is a country that obviously does not want you.’

Chaim Amalek writes: “I would not make much of what one politician has to say. Now, if 50,000 men go rampaging in the streets looking for people to attack as they do in Egypt, that is a different matter. Regarding hate speech, Yidden have as much of a right to stop goyim from uttering it as the goyim have to muzzle their dogs when they bark all night.”

Raš Yahnațan Nazír I’m a polish Jew, not a ukrainian or german one.
That doesn’t mean I have any feelings of Polish nationalism or pride though. Sephardim, however, are usually fiercely proud of their host countries.
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Alex Trivunovic I was refering to Russian Jews that i met. Many of them spoke Russian despite never having lived there. That doesn’t mean they’re Russian patriots, just thought it was interesting that they still kept the language and behaviour. More so than for example French Jews.
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Steven Ben-Off Abrams I am German Jewish on my mother’s side and you’d better believe German Jews “don’t identify” with Germany. My German great-great Grandparents were among the funders of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine.
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Chaim Amalek Sephardim, especially from Syria, are a strange and enigmatic people.
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Alex Trivunovic Steven, have you ever been to Breuer’s synagogue in New York?
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Chaim Amalek Before Hitler wrecked the place for them, the Jews of Germany were in some respects more German than the Germans. They fully supported their Fatherland. In fact, some of them, working as senior investment bankers in New York in 1914, were opposed to supporting England in its war with Germany because their hearts were with the Second Reich.
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Alex Trivunovic Chaim, most of them were Classical Reform Jews, who wanted Jewish observance, but as a religion, not a transnational tribe. The owners of the NYT still adhere to it, which explains their anti-zionism.
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Jeffrey Wendt I’ve met many Jews in New York who said their family was “Russian”.
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Steven Ben-Off Abrams @Alex. The one on 186th Street? I have not, but I will make a point of seeing it next time I’m in New York City
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Steven Ben-Off Abrams My father’s grandfather came from Lithuania. My dad’s mother was born in White Russia (now Belarus0
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Alex Trivunovic I think so Steven. Somewhere in Washington Heights at any rate. I read that it’s the purest Orthodox ‘Yekke’ synagogue in the world. Everything is done like it was in Frankfurt during the ghetto days. Always wanted to see it for that reason.
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Chaim Amalek The late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was said to be very proud of his Russian heritage.
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Alex Trivunovic I thought Sharon was Litvak?
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Steven Ben-Off Abrams @Alex – I’d be interested in seeing it. Thanks for the suggestion. As I get older the “finding your roots” thing becomes more appealing to me than it was when I was young
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Chaim Amalek My roots are on Mars.
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Alex Trivunovic No problem. That’s usually how it works with the roots thing. History has always been my favourite subject, so i’m interested in everybody’s roots
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Christopher Donnellan It depends on the country, I think. I’ve never known Polish or Ukrainian Jews whomever called themselves ‘Polish’ or ‘Ukrainian,’ but have known Russian and German Jews who identified to some extent, with those countries.
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Luke Ford Jews more identify with Western countries because they admire them, while countries in Eastern Europe tend to fill Jews with disgust.

Christopher Donnellan Frankly, there is little love between Jews and Ukrainians, but otoh, isn’t it odd how many Jews, including Israelis, have been backing the regime in Kiev against the Russians?

Luke Ford It’s the greatest game of all rearranging countries to make them more user-friendly for Jews.

Christopher Donnellan Jews have a long and rich history in Poland though. 80% of Jewry lived in what was The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partitions of the late 18th century.
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Chaim Amalek There used to be lots of Hungarian Jews who identified with the Hungarian state.
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Alex Trivunovic Probably true, though they don’t seem to mind living there. I think Russia has the 3rd largest Jewish population in the world.
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Chaim Amalek We Yidden need to establish special kibbutzim in China. Just in case.
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Chaim Amalek I would suggest India, but the place is irredeemably dirty.
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Publishers Not Thrilled With Comments From Race Realists

From Digiday:

Traffic from Drudge can be a double-edged sword. Commonly heard gripes from publishing executives is it comes in the form of spikes that are hard to foresee, so unlike Google and Facebook, it’s hard to optimize to. The traffic is short-term in nature, making it hard to turn into a sustained (valuable) audience, and it often brings with it toxic remarks that pollute the comments section. Simply put, it’s hard to have a Drudge strategy.

The Chicago Sun-Times temporarily shut down its comments section last year after commenters on a crime story, many of whom saw the story on Drudge, got out of hand.

Drudge referrals are “an example of what can happen with a lot of polarized traffic coming in from outside the usual readership,” said Craig Newman, managing editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. “Very short-lived spikes. And unpredictable in nature — nothing to be planned for.”

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Converting To Orthodox Judaism And Then Giving It All Away

It’s disconcerting when I learn about goyim who converted to Orthodox Judaism, lived it for many years, and then drop it completely when “they just don’t believe in it anymore.” Batei Din (Jewish law courts) caught on to this in the 1970s and toughened up. In Los Angeles, at least 95% of Orthodox converts are still keeping Shabbos publicly five years after their conversion. On the one hand, America is all about this type of religious freedom, on the other hand, my in-group Jewish kishkes churn over this. I fear that they give Jews more reasons to not accept converts.

I feel that Jews have by and large treated me according to my merits.

I talk to a lot of would-be converts to Orthodox Judaism and most of them do not belong in Orthodox Judaism. If you are not strong enough to make it through the process, you’re not likely to stick with it in the long run (though some I feel have been screwed over by perverse rabbis whose power has warped them). Most would-be converts I know are women and they expect this incredible spiritual experience along with the supportive and nurturing help of Orthodox rabbis. Boy, are they deluded. Conversion to Orthodox Judaism is more like marrying an America after 9/11 and trying to secure permanent residency. There’s a demanding process.

Chaim Amalek writes: “I have always felt that there was something fundamentally broken in anyone born into a mainstream Christian home who then sought to become an orthodox Jew.”

People who convert are often seeking to fill a hole in their soul that a religious change rarely accomplishes (though it can distract from the pain for a long time). In my view, 12-step programs are the most effective program for filling a hole in the soul. Changing your religion may just change how your soul hole manifests.

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An American Nazi Camp

Though America is best known historically for its ties to Britain, this country is heavily influenced by its German immigrants and I don’t imagine that most of them were thrilled when America went to war twice with Germany.

REPORT:

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American Nazi sympathists were certainly not unheard of during the Third Reich, but it can be shocking to see how established and organized they could be. Camp Siegfried was a bucolic bit of land in Yaphank, New York, a sleepy Suffolk County hamlet in eastern Long Island. It was established as an actual American Nazi summer camp in 1935 by the “Friends of New Germany”—an organization that became the German American Bund (American Nazis) just a year later in 1936. Many similar camps existed across the U.S. throughout the 1930s—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey were all home to large Bund camps. As you’d expect, the “campers” were a reactionary German Americans, vehemently opposed to socialism, unionism and even the reforms of The New Deal.

Publicly, the Bund behaved as if their American citizenship was not in conflict with their Germanophilia and Nazism, even flying the stars and stripes above the Nazi flag at their camps. In a stunning feat of rationalization, they argued that George Washington was actually the “first Fascist.” These gestures did little to assuage the fears of authority; the eerie, militarist images you see here were mostly taken by the NYPD, who was keeping a close eye on all Nazi-affiliated activity, and for good reason. In ‘39 the Bund led a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden that attracted roughly 20,000 Nazis and about 80,000 others. About 200 socialists attempted to disrupt the rally and the ensuing riots were met with 1,745 policeman—more cops than had ever been utilized for a single event in NYPD history.

Camp Siegfried was (finally) forcibly closed in 1941, when Germany formally declared war on the U.S. and allegiance to Hitler was no longer protected as free speech. Bund leader and naturalized citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn was imprisoned for tax evasion and embezzling from the Bund (they never wanted to prosecute him, the charges were apparently just an excuse to attack the organization). Without their camps or their leader, and facing increasing animosity from Nazi-hating Americans, the Bund withered.

I wonder how acceptable it was to be a Nazi in America in the 1930s? As opposed to being a Jew in America? As opposed to being a Japanese nationalist in America? It appears that you could be a Nazi sympathizer in America in the 1930s and gather with other Nazi sympathizers and the world didn’t crash down upon your shoulders.

What I find most interesting from the article is this sentence: “Publicly, the Bund behaved as if their American citizenship was not in conflict with their Germanophilia and Nazism, even flying the stars and stripes above the Nazi flag at their camps.”

It reminds me of the struggles American Jews have had in justifying and explaining their loyalties to their fellow Jews around the world and to the Jewish state of Israel with their American citizenship.

As a Jewish nationalist, I feel like I have easy access to the thinking and practices of other nationalists, be they Germans, Nazis, whites, asians, Japanese, blacks, etc.

Chaim Amalek: “Luke, apart from his antisemitism and declaration of war on the United States, was there anything about Hitler that you don’t approve of?”

Luke: “I think his actions from September 1939 onward were a disaster for Germany, for Jews, for Europeans, and for nationalists.”

The great moral downside of strong in-group identity (such as what the WWII Germans and Japanese possessed) is that out-groups may get slaughtered. I don’t think you can build a widespread and deep in-group identity without also building hostility to out-groups and this theorem applies to Jews as much as it does to non-Jews.

Chaim Amalek writes:

B’H’ for the atom bomb. Here, at least, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the Yidden (Oppenheimer, Szilard, Teller, etc.) were a very bright “light unto the world.”

When Moshiach comes, no one will have nuclear weapons but for us, and we will use them to perform dirt moving activities on the moon and Mars, where we will finally establish an independent homeland for those Palestinians who want one. But none of them will.

When Moshiach comes, David Letterman will have to stop with his ten best list, since every spot on it will be the same.

When Moshiach comes, dogs will use the toilets of the goyim and know how to flush them. But not in our homes, as Yidden will not sleep with or keep them.

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Dennis Prager: America’s Decay Is Speeding Up

Dennis Prager writes:

As one who loves America — not only because I am American, but even more so because I know (not believe, know) that the American experiment in forming a decent society has been the most successful in history — I write the following words in sadness: With few exceptions, every aspect of American life is in decline.

“Decay” is the word.

The Decline of the Family: Nearly half (48 percent) of American children are born to a mother who is not married. Forty-three percent of American children live without a father in the home. About 50 percent of Americans over 18 are married, compared to 72 percent in 1960. Americans are having so few children that the fertility rate fell to a record low 62.9 births per 1,000 women in 2013. And in an increasing number of states, there are now more deaths than births.

The Decline of Education: Compared to nearly all of American history, the average American school teaches much less about important subjects such as American history, English grammar, literature, music and art. Instead, schools are teaching much more about “social justice,” environmentalism and sex.

Any of us who receive emails from large numbers of Americans can attest to the deteriorating education — including among those who attended college — in written English. In sophisticated commentary on websites as well as in email, one encounters the most basic errors: “it’s” instead of “its;” “their” instead of “there;” “then” instead of “than,” etc.

Most universities have become secular seminaries for the dissemination of Leftism. Moreover, aside from indoctrination, students usually learn little. One can earn a BA in English at UCLA, for example, without having read a single Shakespeare play.

To the extent that American history is taught, beginning in high school and often earlier, American history is presented as the history of an immoral nation characterized by slavery, racism, colonialism, imperialism, economic exploitation, and militarism — not of a country that, more than any other, has been the beacon of freedom to mankind, and the country that has spent more treasure and spilled more blood to liberate other peoples than any other nation.

The End of Male and Female: Whatever one’s position on same-sex marriage, one must acknowledge that at the core of the argument for this redefinition of marriage is that gender doesn’t matter. Marriage is marriage, and gender means nothing, the argument goes. So, too, whether children are raised by mother and father or two mothers or two fathers doesn’t matter. A father has nothing unique to offer a child that a mother can’t provide and vice versa.

Dennis Prager does not use this column to explain what is causing America’s decay, but judging by his body of work, he holds that America is declining because it has lost its unique Judeo-Christian heritage. I would ask, why is America losing its Judeo-Christian heritage? I would attribute that primarily to the loss of its European dominance.

When America was 90% white, it did not have these problems. Since America started importing large numbers of non-whites beginning with the 1965 Immigration Act, America has changed (in some ways for the good, in other ways for the bad).

Every major Jewish organization, includes the Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel, supports immigration amnesty, thus hastening America’s decay (making legal residents of about 20 million people who came here illegally).

In which parts of America is family solidarity the weakest? In black and latino life. So why would America want more of this? East Asians, incidentally, have greater familiar solidarity than whites. From National Review, Oct. 11, 2013:

With little fanfare, the federal government has posted its annual compilation of birth data, including out-of-wedlock births. Here’s the bad news (essentially unchanged from last year): Preliminary data indicate that 40.7 percent of all 2012 births were out-of-wedlock, which is appalling, and there are vast differences among racial and ethnic groups. Among non-Hispanic blacks, the figure is highest, at 72.2 percent; for American Indians/Alaska Natives, it’s 66.9 percent; 53.5 percent for Hispanics; 29.4 percent for non-Hispanic whites; and a mere 17.1 percent for Asians/Pacific Islanders.

As I noted last year, it is, of course, no surprise that the groups with the highest illegitimacy rates are the groups that are struggling economically, educationally, with crime, and so forth. Here’s a modest proposal: Why don’t the NAACP and similar organizations take all the money they use to challenge and complain about the standards that their groups (in the aggregate) don’t meet when it comes to university admissions, selective high-school admissions, school discipline, mortgage loans, police and firefighter tests, felon-disenfranchisement laws, employment policies that look at criminal records, etc., etc., and use that money to figure out ways to bring down the illegitimacy rates that drive all these other disparities?

Heather MacDonald writes in 2006:

Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability. Hispanic immigrants bring near–Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.) Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down. Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in the future.

The government social-services sector has already latched onto this new client base; as the Hispanic population expands, so will the demands for a larger welfare state. Since conservative open-borders advocates have yet to acknowledge the facts of Hispanic family breakdown, there is no way to know what their solution to it is. But they had better come up with one quickly, because the problem is here—and growing.

The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate—even more than unbounded levels of immigration—will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades. By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by mid-century, twice the current ratio. In states such as California and Texas, Hispanics will be in the clear majority. Nationally, whites will drop from near 70 percent of the total population in 2000 to just half by 2050. Hispanics will account for 46 percent of the nation’s added population over the next two decades, the Pew Hispanic Center reports.

But it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births—68 percent—exceeds the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.

As if the unmarried Hispanic birthrate weren’t worrisome enough, it is increasing faster than among other groups. It jumped 5 percent from 2002 to 2003, whereas the rate for other unmarried women remained flat. Couple the high and increasing illegitimacy rate of Hispanics with their higher overall fertility rate, and you have a recipe for unstoppable family breakdown.

The only bright news in this demographic disaster story concerns teen births. Overall teen childbearing in the U.S. declined for the 12th year in a row in 2003, having dropped by more than a third since 1991. Yet even here, Hispanics remain a cause for concern. The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls. To put these numbers into international perspective, Japan’s teen birthrate is 3.9, Italy’s is 6.9, and France’s is 10. Even though the outsize U.S. teen birthrate is dropping, it continues to inflict unnecessary costs on the country, to which Hispanics contribute disproportionately.

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Should Jews Take Jewish Names?

I found this post on FB: “Our sages teach us that every letter has a divine power that affects the creation, so much more so the power of words.
Therefore the soul of a Jew with a xtian /muslim name is in constant conflict, and those people should consider changing their names to holy ones in Hebrew, asap.”

Some of the responses were pretty good:

* What about most of Chazals names that were Greek? Or Mordechai and Esther who had Babylonian gods’ names, Marduk and Ishtar.

* And all the hakhamim from the middle east, Saadia Gaon, Abdullah Somekh.

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PROFESSOR TAKES MEDICAL LEAVE AFTER PRO-ISRAEL FACEBOOK POST LEADS TO ‘VICIOUS HATE MAIL’ CAMPAIGN

Breitbart:

Andrew Pessin, Professor of Philosophy at Connecticut College, is the latest casualty in the campus-based culture wars. Dr. Pessin is a well-liked and much published professor, self-described as the “only Jewish professor on campus who openly advocates for Israel.” And now, for remarks made during last summer’s Gaza war, he faces an attack from Palestinian supporters seeking to silence pro-Israel stances on campus.

Pessin tells Breitbart News he believes he was set up by “a Muslim student and an Islamic Studies colleague” who worked in concert. They dug up one of Professor Pessin’s Facebook entries, one he posted during the August 2014 war in Gaza, the war in which Israeli soldiers uncovered and destroyed countless underground terror-tunnels which opened into Israel and were to be used in a mass attack against Israeli civilians. Referring to a leadership that purposely exposed its own civilians to death merely for propaganda purposes, and whose holy warriors attacked mainly Israeli civilians, Pessin compared this leadership to a “rabid pit bull.”

One student, Lamiya Khandaker, whose parents are from Bangladesh and who is also the Chair of Diversity and Equity for the campus’s Student Government Association, wrote to Professor Pessin. He immediately clarified that he was referring to the Hamas leadership and ideology, not to Palestinians; and, upon the advice of the administration, he apologized to Khandaker and deleted the post. Too late, too little.

D. comments: “By hiding out from the pressure, he’s showing these bastards their tactics are working. Had I known this professor and what was going on, I would have suggested he hire a PI/hacker to dig into the personal lives and FB posts of his attackers and hire a PR firm to use that info to publicly expose THEM as the racists. Not just in the local paper, but on national and international news. I’d also suggest he involves law enforcement to arrest them for inciting violence. There should be pro-Israel organizations set up for arranging the above in college campuses across the country. Not just arrange protests with signs and flyers. The tables need to be turned on these Islamofascists who have declared a jihad on our educational systems.”

Luke: Good thing Jews never do this to people who criticize Jews and the Jewish state.

Ken: No. Not John Mearsheimer. Are you serious, Luke? Why are you like this?

Luke: I consider Israel to the most advanced civilization in the Middle East and the only one I would like to live in. I think John J. Mearsheimer is the preeminent political scientist of our generation. I welcome his critiques of Israel and the Israel lobby. I never thought of the perspective he presented in the above essay and now that I have read it, I am glad for that perspective.

Dan: Luke, are you really quoting a proven liar?

Luke: Throwing names is not a valid form of argument. I welcome information that shows errors in facts and logic. I am sure John J. Mearsheimer makes mistakes. I disagree with some of what he writes. I think overall this critique is fair.

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Musings

* I get it that young women must tell people that our relationship is purely platonic, but why do that have to add “LOL”?

* There’s a type of girl who’s just really nice to everyone, smiles at everyone, is courteous to everyone, says hi to everyone. I love this type of girl. I guess I’m attracted to co-dependents aka nurses.

* Luke to a buddy: “We’re the wimps. We gave up our power and surrendered to women. It’s not their fault that they are so manipulative and acquisitive. Evolution made them this way. Women tend to lack agency. They do what their friends do.”
Buddy: “What do my wife’s friends do? They get divorced.”

* I’ve often seen that when an attractive woman gets a divorce, it sets off a destabilizing force in her shul. Many married guys start hitting on her and think about dumping their wives. Other couples divorce. It seems like divorce is contagious. If a man has friends who cheat, he’ll likely cheat on his wife.

B. says: “In my little shtiebel back in America our community was turned upside down when a married man slept with the wife of another man in the shul. Everyone was shell shocked. The man who cheated moved away with his family. The woman who cheated for divorced. We were all traumatized by the whole thing.”

* These days a dozen adults get hushed so one baby can sleep.

Brad: What happened in the old days?

Luke Ford: I assume that adults carried on and babies were not as sheltered from adult noise?

Brad Salzman: I think you are right. What changed?

Luke Ford: I don’t think things changed in the 70s, I think they started changing in the 80s or 90s, and kids were allowed to run the lives and homes of parents much more. I think I might attribute this change primarily to TV and movies which usually portray children as smarter than their parents.

Brad Salzman: Interesting hypothesis. I listened to a really interesting book that dealt with this subject called Scream-Free Parenting. He talks a lot about how in our culture we have placed our children above their parents, to the detriment of everyone.

* I asked my therapist how I could get over my pure annoyance with somebody and instead develop a more compassionate perspective. He suggested I begin with compassion and empathy for myself and maybe that empathy will spread out to include others.

* I propose that we go around and test reactions to the American flag. For those who don’t tear up, we ask them to leave America.

* On my morning walk, I often see old Japanese ladies weeding their lawn with a diligence that no other race exhibits.

* Reform Jewish teenage boy goes to Catholic church for the first time Easter Sunday (for his shiksa girlfriend) and comes back and says, “I was scared. There was all this talk about dying for your sins. And the Jews did this and the Jews did that. And there were all these bloody idols everywhere. I went to a Buddhist temple and it was fine. It made sense. It was like temple.”

* I rarely argue with anyone online. If someone challenges my facts or my logic, I may respond, but as all other types of argument are not honorable, I ignore them.

* Jews can triumph over discrimination, but what about Mexicans? How many hospitals or universities were founded by Mexicans or Hondurans?

* Bibi Netanyahu now is willing to negotiate with Iran rather than just make demands. As this is Israel’s opening position, it must be willing to accept something less.

D. replies: Actually, we spill out some of the wine from our Seder cup on Passover to express our sadness over innocent Egyptians dying.

And the joy we express on Purim is over the Jewish people being spared annihilation. The deaths of Haman’s allies were just a consequence of their choice to side with evil.

Christopher Donnellan: Jewish holidays are usually celebrations of triumph over their enemies and adversity.

Daniel: Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Succoth, Simchas Torah and Shavuos are some of the most important holidays and have nothing to with fighting and overcoming and enemy.

Christopher Donnellan: Purim and Passover certainly do.

Daniel: Purim, like Chanuka, is a minor holiday. Passover includes an aspect of triumphing over an enemy. But it is not the main cause of celebration. We are celebrating God taking us away from serving human masters so that we may serve Him. We don’t rejoice in the deaths of our enemies.

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